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Is there a concise document somewhere that explains why one would choose Riak -- i.e., what unique features or characteristics -- over, say, Cassandra or anothe
by paulsmith 16y ago
Is there a concise document somewhere that explains why one would choose Riak -- i.e., what unique features or characteristics -- over, say, Cassandra or another DHT-style key/value store?
- chexov 16y agohttps://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Comparisons https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Comparisons
- siculars 16y agoMay be a bit dated but right from the horses mouth: http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Comparisons http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Comparisons
- joevandyk 16y agohttps://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Compared+to+Cassandra https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Compared+to+Cassand...
- japherwocky 16y agoHeroku actually published a really good blog post about this today.. it was on the frontpage earlier: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/7/20/nosql/ http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/7/20/nosql/ Riak's nice for redundancy and high availability stuff, and scales dynamically by adding instances.
- mbrubeck 16y agoMozilla's "Test Pilot" user testing system uses Riak. The Mozilla Metrics blog explains why they chose Riak, with comparisons to Cassandra and HBase: http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2010/05/18/riak-and-cassandra-and-hbase-oh-my/ http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2010/05/18/riak-and-cassandra-a...